Meet Ray Christine

Dr. Christine grew up in Kokomo and graduated from Haworth High School in 1970. He attended Purdue University and graduated with honors in 1974 with a chemistry and biology degree. While there he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Bet Kappa scholastic honoraries.

He then pursued a doctorate degree in graduate school at Purdue. He studied neuroanatomy under Dr Gopal Das. His area of study was embryonic development of the brain and transplantation of neural tissue.
While there he published and presented papers on his studies.

In 1979 he entered dental school at Indiana University and graduated in 1983 with a degree in general dentistry. While he was in dental school he was employed by the Oral Health Research Institute. In his research there he developed a new microelectrode measuring system to measure the pH changes in the plaque on teeth. He published and presented papers on this research while he was in dental school. The Oral Health Research Institute used this system as their measuring standard until 1998.

Dr. Christine has enjoyed practicing general dentistry since 1983. He worked for three years in Monon and Lafayette, IN before coming to Kokomo in 1986. He has practiced here since then.

He has two daughters, Katherine and Sarah. He has been married to his wife Terry since 1979. She graduated from veterinary school at Purdue in 1986 and is practicing veterinarian in Kokomo at Northeast Animal Clinic.

Dr. Christine and his family are members at Fairfield Christian Church.